
What you will learn in this chapter
Overview of Processing
of Some Languages
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Some characteristics of Java
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Perl – A popular and powerful scripting language
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Logic Programming language – PROLOG
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An interesting language – FORTH
Key Words
Java, Perl, PROLOG, FORTH
In this chapter, we discuss characteristics of some of the computer programming languages, apart
from C or C++. Each language is selected because of certain feature distinguishing that language,
from the viewpoint of the language translation and run-time support.
We discuss the following languages:
Java – has grown from its initial offering as a safe language for delivering web-based applets ...